Muni News: New BART cars, Muni savings, speedier Muni, Caltrain upgrades

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  • Wage talks to be either a boost or bust for SFMTA (SF Examiner)
  • New Train Car Project (BART.gov)
  • Cuts to Top Brass Will Save Muni $2 Million (Bay Citizen)
  • Half of SF’s Traffic Signals to Get Transit Priority Within Two Years (Streetsblog SF)
  • SFMTA’s plan to speed Muni service (SF Gate)
  • Muni budget deficit ballooning (SF Examiner)
  • Caltrain upgrades a step toward high-speed rail (SFGate)
  • Muni chief takes aim at swollen overtime budget (SF Public Press)
Category: News

Ode to (Not Muni) Transit

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Photo: Staś Małolepszy

Muni rider Jessica has had it with Muni. She writes:

I had been a long time Muni commuter until a job took me to Oakland and forced me to start commuting via bicycle/BART. Now I’m back in the city and at the mercy of Muni when it rains. Last week was particularly bad, and inspired me to start rhyming.

This commuter’s frustration culminated in a very Seuss-ian poem, “An Ode to Independent Transportation.”

I do not miss you Muni bus, who squished and threw and jostled us
I do not miss you 45, recycling and chickens (live!)
I do not miss you 41, iPhone in hands of everyone
I do not miss you 19, too, you smell of B.O. and of poo
I do not miss your route through town, drivers wearing tan and brown
I do not miss your speed, a crawl; I do not miss you, not at all!

Send us your Muni musings, rhyming or otherwise, today.

Category: diaries, Funny: Muni LOLs, WTF: Weirdness on Muni Tags: , , ,

The BART Poop Bandit Strikes (Again?)

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Muni Diaries Live alum Kelly Beardsley shared the following tale recently. Kelly is a BART operator, you see:

Around 9am last Saturday, I heard an operator report a complaint from a passenger about someone tearing up a seat with a sharp object. Two minutes later the operator reported a complaint of the same guy now taking a crap in the seat he cut up.

Man, I’m just not even fazed anymore.

Category: BART

Idea: Subway Sleeper Car

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Why doze off uncomfortably in your seat on the subway when you can take a proper nap in a sleeper car? That’s exactly what Improv Everywhere had in mind when they staged this subway sleeper car stunt. The kindly conductor even offered to tuck sleepers in, and a passenger gladly accepted his offer!

Improv Everywhere has detailed photos of how they set up this entire process late at night on an N train in Astoria.

Last year New Yorkers were also treated to a dinner party on the L. I’m eagerly waiting for the next stunt on Muni/BART/Caltrain!

Thanks to @tbiz for the tip!

Category: diaries, Funny: Muni LOLs
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